February: Kenya
Duke ICN nurse, Natalie Barton, volunteered with Samaritan’s Purse World Medical Mission, which supports medical professionals to serve in hospitals in developing countries. She traveled with 2 bags of supplies to Kapsowar Mission hospital in Kapsowar, Kenya.
April: Guatemala
Duke School of Nursing students traveled to Calhuitz, Guatemala with supplies to be distributed as part of a learning/service experience with Casa Materna, a program that provides essential maternal health services, including prenatal, delivery and post-partum care to women in under-served communities, particularly in rural areas.
April: Tanzania
Duke School of Nursing students traveled to Ntgatcha, Tanzania for a learning/service experience at Amani Medical Center, which serves a low resourced rural community. They donated 15 boxes of medical supplies.
April: Ukraine
The non-profit Ukrainians in the Carolinas coordinated the donation of 5 pallets of supplies to war-impacted areas of Ukraine.
May: Tanzania
Hutton Chapman, MD is a global health fellow in Duke’s Pediatric Hematology/Oncology fellowship program. He traveled to Bugando Medical Centre in Mwanza, Tanzania with supplies to provide care and conduct research on pediatric cancers in sub-Saharan Africa.
July: Maylasia
Miles MacLeod is a former Durham high school teacher who now works full time with refugees in Kuala Lumpur (https://www.kingdomrefugeecare.org/). As part of this work, they do quarterly health screenings in the refugee community and pay for the follow up health and dental care. We donated several cartons of supplies including, exam gloves, bandage supplies, antiseptics and toiletry items for hygiene kits to support this work.
July: Durham/Chapel Hill
Duke Occupational Therapy students helped coordinate a donation of personal care and toiletry items for distribution to residents of an area homeless encampment. The event was hosted by University Baptist Church in Chapel Hill, NC
July: Ecuador
Brennan Davis is a Duke RN who traveled with a team from her church to Quito, Ecuador where she provided women’s health training and needed supplies to a small medical clinic.
August: Liberia
Ten pallets of a variety of medical supplies and 2 procedure chairs were donated to the Annie T. Doe Memorial Foundation https://atdoefoundation.org/ for a new community clinic in Monrovia, Liberia. Amanda Thomas, Health Center Administrator for Duke Primary Care in Knightdale, along with other members of the local Liberian community in NC, coordinated this donation.
September: Durham/Duke
Multiple cartons and bags of expired surplus supplies and surgical devices were recovered and donated to the the Duke Schools of Medicine and Nursing to be used for student teaching. Diverting these supplies from the waste stream for our student and resident education saves substantial costs to the Schools, who would otherwise have to purchase these expensive items.
September: Uganda
Anthony Eze, a global health resident in Duke’s General Surgery program, again arranged the donation of 2 large bags of suture, EKG electrodes, hemostats and other surgical instruments to Mburara Hospital in western Uganda.
October: Durham, NC
Duke medical and PA students collected 2 cartons of basic first aid and hygiene supplies for donation to local homeless communities as part of the Duke “Mobile Med”, a volunteer community service project of the Duke School of Medicine.
October: Brunswick County, NC
REMEDY donated one carton of basic first aid supplies to the Roosevelt & Ruth Marlow Educational and Recreational Foundation to create first-aid kits for distribution at a “Healthy Steps” seminar. The Foundation promotes health awareness, education, and access to resources that improve community well-being, particularly among rural residents.
